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Klepton Parasites First Appearance

The first appearance of the Doctor in the comic medium. (COMIC: The Klepton Parasites)

As with the television series, the William Hartnell's First Doctor was the original comic strip Doctor.

The first Doctor Who comics to be printed were those featured in TV Comic. Consistently labeled as little more than the series' title for the entire run, all but one of the original First Doctor stories were given titles much later by comic strip and Who historians. The original comics introduced the characters of the Doctor's grandchildren, John and Gillian, who served as the strip's replacements to Susan Foreman. The strip introduced them as having lived on 20th century Earth before meeting their grandfather, but never expounded on their origins before the comic, nor their relation to Susan. Because of this, stories exploring the Doctor's family or history on Gallifrey have almost consistently "forgotten" about John and Gillian, and the lack of an acceptable "gap" for these stories to take place has often confounded fans interested in the timeline of the Doctor's life (an issue that would continue on through the Fourth and Fifth Doctor's comic adventures). Despite this, John and Gillian's adventures have not gone totally ignored by other stories, being briefly mentioned in such things as the BBC Audio story A Sting in the Tale and the Short Trips story The Man Who (Nearly) Killed Christmas.

The First Doctor also appeared in a series of Give-a-Show Projector stories in 1965, which featured the only comics to date of him battling the Daleks. He would later be featured in Doctor Who Magazine adventures both in their main series and in specials.

Comic strip companions of the First Doctor[]

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Many of the early comic strip stories did not have individual story titles so there is no "correct" title for many of the strips. Commentary and listings from older sources may use variant titles.

  • The titles given below conform to widely accepted titles (as referenced by Jean-Marc Lofficier and revised by John Ainsworth (comic historian)). The titles below were also adopted and used by Doctor Who Magazine and throughout Doctor Who Classic Comics (to which John Ainsworth was a major contributer).
  • The titles used below are firstly taken from the strip itself or from titles given by the preceding issue. In some cases the writer/artist has been able to provide a title for a given piece of work.

The listing below shows first publication details only. Reprint details can be found by following the story links.

TV Comic[]

Title Featuring Printed in Released
The Klepton Parasites John, Gilliam, Kleptons 674-683 9 November 1964-11 January 1965
The Therovian Quest John, Gillian 684-689 16 January - 22 February 1965
The Hijackers of Thrax 690-692 1 - 15 March 1965
On the Web Planet John, Gillian, Zarbi 693-698 22 March - 26 April 1965
The Gyros Injustice John, Gillian 699-704 3 May - 7 June 1965
Challenge of the Piper 705-709 14 June - 12 July 1965
Moon Landing 710-712 19 July - 2 August 1965
Time in Reverse 713-715 9 - 23 August 1965
Lizardworld 716-719 30 August - 20 September 1965
The Ordeals of Demeter 720-723 27 September - 18 October 1965
Enter: The Go-Ray 724-727 25 October - 15 November 1965
Shark Bait 728-731 22 November - 13 December 1965
A Christmas Story 732-735 20 December 1965 - 10 January 1966
The Didus Expedition 736-739 22 January - 12 February 1966
Space Station Z-7 740-743 19 February - 12 March 1966
Plague of the Black Scorpi 744-747 19 March - 9 April 1966
The Trodos Tyranny John, Gillian, Trods 748-752 16 April - 14 May 1966
The Secret of Gemino John, Gillian 753-757 21 May - 18 June 1966
The Haunted Planet 758-762 25 June - 23 July 1966
The Hunters of Zerox 763-767 30 July - 27 August 1966
The Underwater Robot 768-771 3 - 24 September 1966
Return of the Trods John, Gillian, Trods 772-775 1 - 22 October 1966
The Galaxy Games John, Gillian 776-779 29 October - 19 November 1966
The Experimenters 780-783 26 November - 17 December 1966

TV Comic annuals[]

Title Featuring Printed in Released
Prisoners of the Kleptons John, Gillian, Kleptons Annual 1966 1 September 1965
The Caterpillar Men John, Gillian
Deadly Vessel TV Comic Annual 1967 1 September 1966
Kingdom of the Animals

TV Comic holiday specials[]

Title Featuring Printed in Released
Prisoners of Gritog John, Gillian TV Comic Holiday Special 1965 1 July 1965
Guests of King Neptune TV Comic Holiday Special 1966 1 July 1966
The Gaze of the Gorgon

Doctor Who annuals[]

Title Featuring Printed in
Mission for Duh Doctor Who Annual 1967

Doctor Who Magazine[]

Title Writer Featuring Printed in Released
Timeslip Dez Skinn Second Doctor, Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, K9 Mark II 17-18 31 January - 7 February 1980
Funhouse Alan McKenzie Sixth Doctor, Frobisher 102-103 13 June - 11 July 1985
Time & Time Again Paul Cornell Seventh Doctor, Ace, Benny, Second Doctor, Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Fifth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Susan, Jamie, Zoe, Adric, Frobisher, White Guardian, Black Guardian 207 25 November 1993
Food for Thought Nicholas Briggs Ben, Polly 218-220 29 September - 24 November 1994
Operation Proteus Gareth Roberts Susan 231-233 28 September - 23 November 1995
Happy Deathday Scott Gray Second Doctor, Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Fifth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Seventh Doctor, Eighth Doctor, Izzy Sinclair 272 19 November 1998
Death to the Doctor! Jonathan Morris Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Eighth Doctor, Ninth Doctor, Tenth Doctor, Steven, Dodo, Jo, the Brig, Romana I, K9 Mark II, Frobisher, Izzy, Rose, Martha 390 13 December - 2007

DWM Specials[]

Title Writer Featuring Printed in
Flashback Scott Gray Seventh Doctor, Benny DWMS Winter 1992
Are You Listening? Vicki, Steven DWMS Summer 1994

Doctor Who Yearbooks[]

Title Writer Featuring Printed in
A Religious Experience Tim Quinn Seventh Doctor, Ian, Barbara Doctor Who Yearbook 1994

IDW Publishing[]

Miniseries[]

Title Writer Featuring Printed in Released
The Forgotten Tony Lee Second Doctor, Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Fifth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Seventh Doctor, Eighth Doctor, Ninth Doctor, Tenth Doctor, Ian, Barbara, Susan, Jamie, Zoe, Jo, The Brig, Benton, Yates, Romana II, Tegan, Turlough, Peri, Ace, Rose, Martha, Autons, Judoon, Clockwork Droids, Kaldor androids, Es'Cartrss TF 1 - 6 20 August 2008 - 21 January 2009

Doctor Who (2012)[]

  • Dead Man's Hand (DW12 15 featuring Matrix projections of the first eleven Doctors and the War Doctor)
Title Writer Featuring Printed in Released
Dead Man's Hand Tony Lee Eleventh Doctor, Clara DW12 13 - 16 18 September - 4 December 2013

Prisoners of Time[]

Title Writer Featuring Printed in Released
Unnatural History Scott & David Tipton Ian, Barbara, Vicki, Zarbi, The Animus POT 1 28 February 2013
Endgame Second Doctor, Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Fifth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Seventh Doctor, Eighth Doctor, Ninth Doctor, Tenth Doctor, Eleventh Doctor, all captured companions, Adam, The Tremas Master POT 12 20 November 2013

Titan Comics[]

Doctor Who: The First Doctor[]

Title Writer Featuring Released
In-Between Times Paul Cornell Susan, Ian, Barbara 26 September 2018

Miniseries[]

Back-up strips[]

The Many Lives of Doctor Who[]

Title Writer Featuring Printed in Released
The Path of Skulls Richard Dinnick Susan, Ian, Barbara 13D 0 26 September 2018

Parody[]

External links[]

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